Storyboard Pro
Advanced Storyboarding
This course will take you through the advanced concepts in Storyboard Pro for you to hone your existing storyboarding skills. You will be introduced to all the advanced features to create boards quickly and efficiently.
13 Modules
14 hours 45 mins
About the Advanced Storyboarding Course
In this module, you will discover what you will be learning throughout the Advanced Storyboarding course.
Efficient Project Creation
In this module, you will learn how to create a project from Final Draft, how to backup a project, and how to restore a Storyboard Pro project.
Project Management
In this module, you will learn about splitting, extracting, and merging storyboards. Additionally, you will learn how to insert scenes into a project, as well as merging and replacing scenes.
Advanced Preferences
In this module, you will learn about various preferences that will make your use of Storyboard Pro more effective. These settings will allow you to save time and avoid potential issues.
Advanced Panels and Captions
In this module, you will learn about different ways you can manipulate your panels and captions. You will utilize and search captions, as well as customize the panel colour. You will learn various ways to manipulate Sequences, including joining and splitting them. Finally, you will use Acts and Sequences, and learn how to create these.
Expanding and Collapsing Captions
Hiding Captions
Saving the Caption Layout as Default
Searching Text in Captions
Updating Captions from CSV
Expanding and Collapsing Scenes
Customizing the Panel Colour
Regenerating Thumbnails
Locking and Unlocking Names
Selecting All Panels
About Sequences
Creating Sequences
Renaming Sequences
Removing Sequences
Joining and Splitting Sequences
Selecting All Panels in a Sequence
About Acts
Enabling Acts
Starting New Acts
Joining Acts
Selecting All Panels in an Act
Creating Sequences and Acts
Advanced Drawing
In this module, you will learn about advanced drawing tools in Storyboard Pro. You will learn more about tool presets, how to import and export them, and finally how to clean up a storyboard with tool presets. You will import a 3D object as a reference in a 2D scene, and learn to use the Stamp Tool. Finally, you will learn how to best use text in your storyboard.
About Drawing Space Efficiency
Displaying the Grid
About Quick Swap Shortcut
Antialiasing OpenGL Lines
Changing the Drawing Tool Cursor
About Tool Presets
Creating Tool Presets
Updating Tool Presets
Deleting Tool Presets
Importing and Exporting Tool Presets
Locking the Tool Preset Layer Selection
Cleaning up with the Tool Presets
Adding a 3D Object as a Rendered Image in a 2D Scene
Activity: Using a 3D Object as a Reference in a 2D Scene
Creating a Stamp
Deforming a Drawing Using the Perspective Tool
About the Text Tool
Adding Text
Formatting Text
Resizing the Text Box
Breaking Text
Modifying Text
Using the Select by Colour Tool
Background Layout with Storyboard Pro
In this module, you will learn all about Guides. How to create them, copy them, edit them and how to use them to help you draw precise layouts using perspective. You'll also be able to create your own one point, two point and three point perspective scenes.
About Drawing Guides
Adding Drawing Guides
Deleting Drawing Guides
Copying Drawing Guides
Editing Drawing Guides
Drawing Backgound Layouts with Drawing Guides
Viewing Drawing Guide Reference Lines
Preventing the Editing of Drawing Guides
Enabling and Disabling Drawing Guides
Locking and Unlocking Guide Axes Manually
Activity 1: Creating a One Point Perspective Layout Using Guides
Activity 2: Creating a Two Point Perspective Layout Using Guides
Activity 3: Creating a Three Point Perspective Layout Using Guides
Effects
In this module, you will learn how to use effects on your layers. How to add and adjust different types of blurs, such as radial zoom and directional blur, and also how to convert your layers so that the effect can be applied.
Storyboard Revision
This module is all about Tracking Changes and Voice Annotations. You will learn how to track changes in your project, how to validate changes and also how to avoid tracking changes in captions. Additionally, you will learn about recording, playing and deleting Voice Annotations which help to make your storyboard revision more efficient.
Advanced Import
In this module you will learn all about the advanced options when it comes to importing images into Storyboard Pro. You will learn how to import images as scenes and layers, and how to use automatic insertion. Finally, you'll learn how to set the vectorize options for your images and how to import images as actual size.
Library and Templates
In this module you'll be learning all about libraries and templates. How to open and close libraries from your hard drive and in Storyboard Pro, as well as refreshing and renaming them. You'll also learn about creating, deleting and importing templates to and from the library.
About Libraries
About the Library Structure
Creating Libraries
Opening Libraries
Renaming Folders
Closing Libraries and Deleting Folders
Refreshing Libraries
Activity 1: Creating and Opening a Library
About Templates
Creating Templates
Deleting Templates
Importing Templates
Generating Thumbnails
Activity 2: Creating a Template and Importing It
3D Storyboard
In this module, you'll learn all about how to use 3D models in Storyboard Pro. You'll learn not only how to import 3D models, but also how to rotate, scale and translate them. You'll also learn how to integrate your 2D drawings with 3D objects, and how to draw on the surface of a 3D object. Finally, you will learn how to separate 3D nodes onto separate layers, as well as how to snap objects to a surface, and how to adjust and reset an object's position.
About 3D Objects
Determining the Scale Factor
About Pre-scaling 3D Objects
Importing 3D Objects
Replacing 3D Objects
Adding 3D Objects
Activity: Importing a 3D Model
Displaying 3D Objects
Positioning, Rotating and Scaling 3D Objects
About 2D and 3D Object Interaction
Creating 2D Layers on Surface of 3D Objects
Activity: Positioning a 3D Object in a Panel and Draw on the Surface
Maintaining the Size of Elements
Positioning 3D Nodes
Resetting a 3D Object's Position
Snapping to Surface or Ground
Activity: Separating 3D Subnodes on Different Layers
Advanced Export
This module is all about the advanced settings when you export from Storyboard Pro. You'll learn about layer export settings, how to set up file naming patterns, and how to export layouts, FBX files and CSV files.
Available in the following Journey(s):
Storyboarding Artist
Associate Certification Exam Preparation (Storyboard Pro)
Professional Certification Exam Preparation (Storyboard Pro)